[open] Slow text rendering

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• anonymouse

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  Hi!

  What back-end are you using now? Psycho and Legacy seem to be a lot faster than xpyriment when it comes to text rendering.

  You could prepare both the Chinese and English (?) text in the prepare-tab of an inline-script item. Than in the run-tab, you could show either of them (with canvas.text() for example) dependent on the language that was chosen.

  Oh and if you are going to use Legacy and you'll be using a multiple-choice item to determine the language, you might want to enable the custom cursor (in the Back-end settings). Otherwise it won't work (on my computer at least).

  Hope this helps!
• Xophmeister

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  Hi,

  I was using xpyriment. I tried with Psycho, but that broke my other tasks; fortunately, Legacy didn't break anything and sped things up considerably...enough for it to be usable. Thank you

  It's still not wrapping Chinese text, but I can force that with manual line feeds.
• sebastiaan

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  It's still not wrapping Chinese text, but I can force that with manual line feeds.

  Could you give an example of this? I.e. what should happen, and what does actually happen in OpenSesame?

  
  
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• Xophmeister

  August 2015 edited August 2015

  Hi Sebastiaan,

  I think the problem is due to written Chinese not containing any whitespace characters, so it doesn't know where it can wrap.

  Here's a minimal demonstration

  The English text correctly wraps before/at the nearest space to the max_width. The Chinese text just runs off the screen.

  Thanks;
  C
• anonymouse

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  You could try this:

  text = """chinese text """
  

  Instead of:

  text = u'chinese text'
  

  Then put spaces where you want them and adjust the font-size a little so it will fit on the screen.
• Xophmeister

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  Hi anonymouse,

  That's basically what I've done to workaround the issue: My source text has manual linefeeds in it where it reaches the max_width. It's a bit awkward to go through the text to place the linefeeds appropriately, but not a huge problem for now

  Thanks;
  C
• sebastiaan

  August 2015 edited August 2015

  The English text correctly wraps before/at the nearest space to the max_width. The Chinese text just runs off the screen.

  I figured as much. But there must be rules for how Chinese text should wrap, right? From Wikipedia it looks like it's ok to wrap after any character, with the exception that a handful of characters (mostly punctuation) are not allowed at the start of a line.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages

  Is my understanding correct? If so, this wouldn't be to hard to implement in OpenSesame.

  
  
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• Xophmeister

  August 2015 edited 12:20PM

  Hi Sebastiaan,

  I'm not a native Chinese speaker, but yes, that is my understanding of how it works